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Re: RFC: doc for `Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs'


From: Robert Collins
Subject: Re: RFC: doc for `Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs'
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:49:07 +1100

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 10:36, Eric Siegerman wrote:

> I believe this fails on the following corner case.  Suppose the
> date ordering is like this (with data.h being the oldest):
>       data.h   data.foo   data.c
> 
> data.h is out of date with respect to data.foo, so one wants to
> rebuild it, but I don't think that will happen:


Then data.c is not derived from data.foo. Or someone has manually edited
it - either of which is incorrect for this scenario. Try touching
Makefile.am, then editing Makefile.in...

Rob
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